Name: Darren Lee Jin Wei

Student Number:F10DM0392

Course: Design and Media, Animation

Class: 2B

Exercise 5

Title of Work: The Frog in a Box

Blog Address/Link: http://rambles-of-the-mind.blogspot.com/

Deadline: 5 SEPT 2011

1 Sentence Summary: A frog trapped in a box employs some rather unorthodox methods to try and free himself.

Name: Darren Lee Jin Wei

Student Number:F10DM0392

Course: Design and Media, Animation

Class: 2B

The Brief:

- Story 4

- a good 1-sentence summary

- story suitable for animation

- keep it simple - even children can understand and enjoy

- keep to 1 location (no location possible too)

- key character is NOT human - can be animal, plant, thing, object, imaginary, etc

Grading:

Title of Work: The Frog in a Box

1 Sentence Summary: A frog trapped in a box employs some rather unorthodox methods to try and free himself.

There once lived a little frog in a small box.

This box lacked any form of opening to the world outside. It did not have windows, doors or any obvious openings.

This meant that the poor little frog was very lonely most of the time.

But one day, he decided that he had enough of the monotony of living in the confines of the box. He decided he was going to be FREE! He begun to think of an escape plan.

Going up to the side of the wall, he proceeded to knock it with all his might.

"THUNK"

The little frogs hand swelled to enormous proportions due to the pain. It turned out the wall was thicker than he had originally intended.

Frantically blowing at his swollen hand, he proceeded to produce a whiteboard from a back pocket, and begun writing in gibberish which only he understood. He then begun to mix a concoction of vile and rather dangerous chemicals to together, with one of them resulting in a loud "POOF".

Letting lose an evil laugh, he placed the vile in a stick of dynamite with a timed fused attached. Hurling it against the "offending" wall, he leaped over to the other side of the room.

With a spectacular boom, the concoction went off, sending the little frog bouncing around the room. Reverberating off the sides of the wall, the poor amphibian landed in a heap. Much to his chagrin, there was not even a scratch. It seemed he would have to return to the drawing board.

After much deliberating, the little critter decided to employ the power of flight. Producing a pair of leaves, his attempts to gain flight only resulted in a few centimetres at best off the floor with gravity pulling him back almost immediately.

Landing with a not so triumphant crash, he realised there had to be a more energy conserving and less painful method of achieving flight.

Rummaging around his pocket, he produced a variety of wacky gadgets which he proceeded to throw into a heap. Finally producing a huge flower, he snickered to himself.

Clasping it in both hands, he spun it like a hand helicopter. Spinning around at great speed, he begun to achieve lift. But the little frog did not notice this for he was too dizzy from grabbing on to the stalk.

As the flower achieved altitude, another problem sprung up. As the flower continued to spin, it had begun to lose its petals. And that was not the biggest of the frogs' worries. He had forgotten a very important element.

The lid of the box.

However luck seemed to be on the frogs side. Much like how a drill boors through wood, the sound of the flower hitting the lid produced a similar tone.

As he surfaced from his captive prison, the little frog saw individuals who looked like him. Hopping over as quickly as he could, he bounded to where the group had gathered.

But this group of frogs looked quite sad. As the little frog soon found out. By some cruel twist of fate, It turned out his box was just one of the many inside a larger one...

"Smack" as he face palmed himself.